When Shangde brought Su You a fine horse, and then heard that Su You didn't know how to ride it, he was speechless.
If Shang De knew that Su You's "gentleman's art" was actually only the most basic "calligraphy" and "mathematics," who knows how many times he would roll his eyes and how many liters of blood he would vomit. Fortunately, Su You was fat and thick-skinned, and he consciously continued to stay in the carriage with Qingxing and Zisu, continuing to bump along the official road to Chang'an.
This section of road is clearly a rare highway, with wide bluestone slabs that can accommodate five horse-drawn carriages at the same time. The earliest highways appeared around the Qin Dynasty, while national roads existed even earlier. As early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, well-maintaine
